The play has been translated to Slovenian via the Esperanto version and to French.

He created the production and distribution company Esperanto Films, which has credits on the films Duck Season and Pan's Labyrinth.

He also presents the idea that, once one has learned enough vocabulary to express himself, it is easier to think clearly in Esperanto than in many other languages.

:* Esperanto has the symbols ŭ, ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ and ŝ, which are included in the alphabet, and considered separate letters.

Although no country has adopted Esperanto officially, Esperanto was recommended by the French Academy of Sciences in 1921 and recognized in 1954 by UNESCO ( which later, in 1985, also recommended it to its member states ).

Esperanto has never been a secondary official language of any recognized country.

The US Army has published military phrase books in Esperanto, to be used in war games by mock enemy forces.

Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, a left-wing cultural association, or Education @ Internet, which has developed from an Esperanto organization ; most others are specifically Esperanto organizations.

The largest of these, the World Esperanto Association, has an official consultative relationship with the United Nations and UNESCO, which recognized Esperanto as a medium for international understanding in 1954.

Typologically, Esperanto has prepositions and a free pragmatic word order that by default is subject – verb – object.

Esperanto has 23 consonants, 5 vowels, and 2 semivowels that combine with the vowels to form 6 diphthongs.

That declaration stated, among other things, that the basis of the language should remain the Fundamento de Esperanto (" Foundation of Esperanto ", a group of early works by Zamenhof ), which is to be binding forever: nobody has the right to make changes to it.

Many Esperantists believe this declaration stabilising the language is a major reason why the Esperanto speaker community grew beyond the levels attained by other constructed languages and has developed a flourishing culture.

Esperanto has not fragmented into regional dialects through natural language use.

However, Ido has proven to be a rich source of Esperanto vocabulary.

Esperanto has an agglutinative morphology, no grammatical gender, and simple verbal and nominal inflections.

These letters are unique to Esperanto, though it also has a letter ŭ that is shared with the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet.

Esperanto has a single definite article, la, which is invariable.

Historically most of the music published in Esperanto has been in various folk traditions ; in recent decades more rock and other modern genres has appeared.

A list of recent notable persons includes, but is not limited to ; Ryszard Kaczorowski, last émigré President of the Republic of Poland, L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto, Albert Sabin, co-developer of the polio vaccine, Izabella Scorupco, actress, Max Weber, painter

Esperanto orthography uses a diacritic for all four of its postalveolar consonants, as do most Latin-based Slavic alphabets ( Polish is the most notable exception ).

Oomoto members also tend to recognize notable religious figures from other religions, or even notable non-religious figures, as kami – for example, the creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof is revered as a god.

Hu Shuli was born in Beijing, from a lineage of notable journalists: her grandfather, Hu Zhongchi, was a famous translator and editor at Shen Bao and his older brother Hu Yuzhi ( 1896 – 1986 ), " an early proponent of language reform, the use of Esperanto, and realism in literature ," was involved in editing and publishing.

A notable advocate for the universal language, Esperanto, he presided over its 1st Universal Congress ( Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France, 7 August to 12 August 1905 ) and directed the Academy of Esperanto.

It is notable for apparently being the first Esperantido, i. e. the first Esperanto derivative.

In the 1920s and 30s certain notable Bahá ' ís such as Martha Root, Lidia Zamenhof and Hermann Grossmann — the founder of the Bahá ' í Esperanto magazine La Nova Tago — were active in the Esperanto movement.

Translations in Polish, Romanian, Greek and Turkish ( another example of competing cultures where the presence of one drives the other ), and Esperanto are all currently under development.

While words in both Ido and Esperanto are spelled exactly as they are pronounced, the presence of digraphs means that Ido does not have the one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds that Esperanto has.

There are over 25, 000 Esperanto books ( originals and translations ) as well as over a hundred regularly distributed Esperanto magazines.

Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages, used in Poland over the centuries, have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Yiddish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, German and Esperanto.

UEA publishes books and has the largest mail-order Esperanto bookstore in the world ( with over 6000 books, CDs and other items ).

Esperanto was chosen rather than a major national language such as English because it is nationally neutral and relatively easy to master, while still backed and proven by an existing infrastructure — over a century of Esperanto culture -- and its surface similarities to major European languages facilitate the learning of regional and world languages such as English, Spanish, or Russian.

Over 25, 000 books in Esperanto have been published, and the largest Esperanto book service at the World Esperanto Association offers over 4, 000 books in its catalog.

Since publication, there has been debate over whether it is possible for Esperanto to attain this position, and whether it would be an improvement for international communication if it did.

There have been numerous objections to Esperanto over the years.

Some Esperantists maintain that Esperanto does have an international culture, or interculture, developed over the past century, which includes among other things a significant original literature that provides the Esperanto community with a common background — a distinctive feature of any cultural community.

Critics counter that Esperanto could simply take over from national languages and continue the destruction of linguistic diversity that is already taking place.

It has long stepped over the borders of Lithuanian literature: it has been translated into Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, English, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Romanian and Esperanto.

Szakasits was an Esperantist for over 40 years, attended Esperanto congresses, and was a member of the International Patron Committee for the World Esperanto Congress in 1959.

However, European national standards differ in this regard, resulting in debate over the form of later " international " borrowings, such as whether the asteroid Pallas should be Palaso in Esperanto, parallel to French and English names Pallas, or Palado, as in Italian Pallade, Russian Паллада ( Palláda ), and the English adjective Palladian.

In 1907, Couturat helped found the artificial language Ido, an offshoot of Esperanto, and was Ido's principal advocate over the remainder of his life.

On the debate within anarchist circles he defended the Ido constructed language over Esperanto with the help of José Elizalde.